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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:43:30 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XDM login freezes on boot
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902110740080.69591@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1234349391.13067.22.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <4992A934.2090903@maydias.com> <1234349391.13067.22.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Da Rock wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote:
>> AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2
>>
>> I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this
>> machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything
>> loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon screen, however,
>> you cant do anything an the mouse dosent work.  To solve this issue i go
>> to console via CTRL + ALT + F1 kill tthe XDM pid an once it comes back
>> up, everything is perfectly fine.
>>
>> Anyone else had this odd occurance ?
>
> Sounds like hald is starting after ttys is initiated. There's another
> thread here mentioning that- never read the answer though. Maybe start
> hald at the beginning of your rc.conf? Or set a sleep on your tty entry
> for x?

rc.conf just sets variables; it's not order-sensitive.

If xorg-server-1.5.3_5,1 along with all the previous patches doesn't fix 
the problem, then delaying xdm startup might be the way to go.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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